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• The GCSDC will become a. one-stop resource on climate science for members of
Congress, the media, industry and all others concerned. It will be in constant
contact with the best climate scientists and ensure that their findings and views
receive appropriate attention. It will provide them With the log-i«rb'cal and moral
support they have been lademg'. In short, it will be a sound scientific alternative to
the IPCC. Its functions will include:
— Providing as an easily accessible database (including a website) of all
mainstream climate science information,
— Identifying and establishing cooperative relationships with all major scientists
whose research in this field supports our position.
— Establishing cooperative telatiorLships with other mainstream scientific
organizations (e.g., meteorologists, geophysicists) to bring their perspectives to
bear on the debate, as appropriate.
— Developing opportunities to maximize the impact of saentific views consistent
with ours with Congress, the media and other key audiences.
— Monitoring and serving as and early warning system for scientific developments
with the potential to impact on the climate science debate, pro and con.
— Responding to claims from the scientific alarmists and media,
— Providing grants for advocacy on dimate science, as deemed appropriate.
Global Climate Science Data Center Budget — 55,000,000 (spread over two
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years minimumJ
I1L National Direct Outreach and Education: Develop and implement a direct
outreach program to inform and educate members of Congress, state officials,
industry leadership, and school teachers/students about uncertainties in
climate science. This strategy will enable Congress, state officials and
industry leaden will be able to raise Sndi serious questions about the Kyoto
treaty's scientific underpinnings that American policy-makers not only will
refuse to endorse it, they will seelc to prevent progress toward implementation
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t the Buenos Aires meeting in November or through other ways- Informing
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i teachers/students about uncertainties in climate science will begin to erect a
bamex against further efforts to Impose Kyoto-like measures in the future.
Tactics; Informing and educating members of Congress, state officials and industry
will be undertaken as soon as the plan is approved, funding is obtained, and the
necessary resources are arrayed and will continue through Buenos Aires and for the
foreseeable future. The teachers/students outreach program will be developed and
launched in early 1999. In all cases, tactical implementation will be fully integrated with
other elements of this action plan.
" Develop and conduct through the Global Qimate Science Data Center science
briefings for Congress, governors, state legislators, and Industry leaders by August
1998.
• Develop information kits on dimate s